Septic soil in Solano County, CA, by the numbers

Very limited

86.4% of Solano County, CA's surveyed soil comes back "Very limited" in USDA's own SSURGO data, the county's dominant condition for a septic absorption field. A standard gravity system routinely fails on ground like this; the same share of the county falls in USDA's worst absorption-field bucket outright. Solano County, CA is 821.738 square miles with a population of 455,101.

What Solano County's reading doesn't cover

USDA's survey covers the whole of Solano County, CA at once, not any single address. A local percolation test, typically $750-$1,850 (around $1,300 typical), is the only way to know what one lot in Solano County will actually do.

What a system would cost here

With 86.4% of Solano County rating "Very limited", a standard gravity system is not a safe assumption here. The engineered-system range, $10,000-$40,000 (mound or aerobic treatment), is the more realistic number to plan around, against $3,000-$8,000 for a conventional system on the rare lot that passes.

Where this sits nationally

Nationally, Solano County, CA is the 1,581-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within California alone it ranks 42 of 57.

Before you act on this

How this rating is built, and its real limits · Conventional vs. engineered septic systems